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These poems take the reader from Mexico City to West Philadelphia to Karachi. The works wade into the difficult joys of mothering, self-exploration, and romantic entanglement in midlife. Throughout, Eleanor Stanford embraces the mysticism of Hildegard of Bingen, the abjection of Tammy Wynette, and the wry self-appraisal of Sylvia Plath, fashioning it all into something entirely its own.
Arriving October 2024
“Eleanor Stanford is the poet laureate of distance. These astute and acutely crafted poems range across time and across space and expertly excavate the gap between body and mind.”
-- Natalie Shapero
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